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TIL a Japanese submarine used to attack Sydney Australia was later painted yellow by college students inspired by the Beatles song

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4weo TIL the tradition for standing during the hallelujah chorus of Handel’s Messiah started because King George II stood during it at the first performance in England, and then everyone else had to stand up, and no one knows why George stood up.
9ww5D TIL there are "Harbinger households": neighborhoods that consistently choose failed products and therefore could predict market failures
x87b TIL that “Where the Wild Things Are” was originally “Where the Wild Horses are” before Maurice Sendak realized he didn’t know how to draw horses.
WkyjA TIL that researchers in the Netherlands have found that, on New Year’s Eve, birds fly much higher than normal to avoid the fireworks.
JANV TIL there exists a National Raisin Reserve, where US raisin farmers are forced to deposit part of their produce without any compensation. This is done in order to keep the raisin prices up, essentially making this a government run price cartel.